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Title
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'Hurrah for Harrison' in downtown Forest Grove
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Description
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One of a pair of humorous images dating from the 1888 Presidential election between Harrison and Cleveland. A crowd of men and boys watches as a man carrying an American flag is carried in a wheelbarrow down the street. A caption below the wheelbarrow reads, “Hurrah for Harrison.” Harrison, like the majority of Forest Grove at the time, was a Republican; he lost the election. A related image captioned “Hurrah for Cleveland” shows the same man being dumped out of the wheelbarrow into the muddy street. The Oregonian printed a description of this scene on November 15, 1888, noting that two local men had made a bet about the outcome of the election and that the loser had to carry the other one in a wheelbarrow procession through town, but that the loser dumped out the winner as a joke. The man holding the wheelbarrow was Charles Fritz, who ran a local photography studio; the man riding in the wheelbarrow was Joseph Vaughn. This photograph was taken in downtown Forest Grove, standing just south of the present-day intersection of Main Street and 21st Avenue, looking towards the north-northwest. It is one of very few images showing downtown Forest Grove’s original wooden buildings. The sign for the shoe shop which served as a workshop for children at the Forest Grove Indian School in the early 1880s is barely visible behind the crowd on the left. None of the buildings pictured survive today.
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[Front] [typed] Hurrah for Harrison
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Identifier
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WCMpic_000615
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Language
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English
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Date Created
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1888
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Date
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1888
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Medium
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photographic prints
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Rights
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Online access to this image is for research and educational purposes only. To inquire about permissions, order a reproduction, or for more information, please contact the Five Oaks Museum at Research@FiveOaksMuseum.org.
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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Type
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Still Image
